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First reported 9 hours ago - Updated 29 mins ago - 1 reports

Xbox One Release: Tons Of Questions, Very Few Answers

Unless, like me, you are looking at the release dates for the next generation of gaming consoles the way a starving hyena watches an approaching gazelle that's been eating nothing but butter for weeks, perhaps you're not up on all the information coming ... [Published Techdirt - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Microsoft Corporation, Xbox 360, Video Game Consoles

First reported 8 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 1 reports

In Defense Of Digital Freedom: It's Time To Get Beyond 'Cyber' Hyperbole

Marietje Schaake, a member of the European Parliament often credited as one of the most tech savvy (and, yes, a regular Techdirt reader ) has penned an excellent article, In defense of digital freedom . It's well worth a read, even if it covers many ... [Published Techdirt - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Key Point, Resilience, Threat

First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 1 reports

Google Inc

Copyright... Patent... It's All The Same To The World's Third-Largest News Agency

from the patent-that-catchphrase,-yo deptWhile we realize that the intricacies of IP law (and its often-attendant ridiculousness) can be rather difficult for the average, uninterested person to parse, it's really not asking too much to expect large international ... [Published Techdirt - 17 hours ago]

Entities: Patent, Kim Dotcom, Google Inc, Twitter

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation

Think DOJ Spying On Reporters Was 'Unprecedented'? Think Again

We've already written about how the DOJ has a bit of history of spying on journalists' phone records without following the rules, and that was only scratching the surface. On Monday we showed that to be the case with the revelation about the questionable ... [Published Techdirt - 10 hours ago]

Entities: FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation, Subpoena, Seizures

First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 1 reports

SodaStream International Ltd

DailyDirt: DIY Soda (Pop Or Whatever You Call Carbonated Beverages)

from the urls-we-dig-up deptMaking your own carbonated soft drinks has a few benefits -- from knowing where all the ingredients came from (eg. no brominated vegetable oil) to getting the satisfaction of creating your own custom flavoring. It's not quite ... [Published Techdirt - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Bromate, Phosphoric Acid, SodaStream International Ltd

First reported 15 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 1 reports

NASA

If You Thought Copyright Was A Mess On Earth, What Does It Look Like In Space?

Assuming you haven't been under a rock, there's a decent chance that you've seen astronaut Chris Hadfield's rendition of David Bowie's Space Oddity (with the lyrics conveniently changed to skip the whole dying in space part). The video was released just ... [Published Techdirt - 15 hours ago]

Entities: Cosmonaut, Space Tourism, NASA, Chris Hadfield, International Space Station

First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 12 hours ago - 1 reports

Barack Obama

Petition Asks Obama To Support Treaty For The Blind, Rather Than Siding With Hollywood

During the course of President Obama's administration, he has gone back and forth over support for the WIPO treaty for the blind, which would make it easier for vision impaired people to get copies of books that they can read (allowing legally made copies ... [Published Techdirt - 12 hours ago]

Entities: Barack Obama, Hollywood, Motion Picture Association of America

First reported 13 hours ago - Updated 13 hours ago - 1 reports

Fair Use For Me, But Not For Thee

Here's a wacky one. Blogger Mark Reinhardt, who blogs about Idaho, had written a blog post critical of local TV station KTVB and its news reporting. With it, he included a YouTube clip of the reporting in question, along with some of his own commentary ... [Published Techdirt - 13 hours ago]

Entities: KTVB, FAIR USE, YouTube LLC

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 14 hours ago - 1 reports

Another Court Tells Prenda To Pay Up On Attorneys Fees

It looks like the bill for Prenda Law is going up. Yet another court has now awarded attorneys' fees, telling "AF Holdings" (one of Prenda's shell companies) to pay $9,425. Of course, since Prenda still tries to deny that it controls AF Holdings, I'm ... [Published Techdirt - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Mark Lutz, John Steele, Alan Cooper, Lackey, Paralegal

First reported 19 hours ago - Updated 15 hours ago - 1 reports

Another CA Cop Thinks A Cell Phone Might Be A Dangerous Weapon

Citizens recording police activity often find their subjects in no mood to be photographed. These amateur photographers/filmmakers are threatened, attacked or dragged to the nearest police station and booked, using charges like "interference" or "disorderly ... [Published Techdirt - 19 hours ago]

Entities: Cellphone, Police Officer, Police

First reported 16 hours ago - Updated 16 hours ago - 1 reports

Guy Sues Twitter For Taking Away His Twitter Handle

Leonard Barshack, who founded BigFoot, which was a (quite popular) internet forwarding mailing service in the dotcom era, has apparently sued Twitter for taking away his username, @SunValley and giving it to the Sun Valley resort. Barshack, who lives ... [Published Techdirt - 16 hours ago]

Entities: Twitter, Trademark, Lawsuit

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 1 reports

Ex-Prenda Lawyer Brett Gibbs Pleads Poverty To Judge Wright

While Brett Gibbs has "parted ways" with Prenda and its copyright trolling, from all appearances he was an instrumental part of many of its efforts. Of course, the three main players, John Steele, Paul Hansmeier and Paul Duffy, were quick to throw Gibbs ... [Published Techdirt - 18 hours ago]

Entities: John Steele, Brain Cancer, Lawsuit, Federal Court, Pornography

Quotes

...The official Microsoft party line on the day the company revealed the Xbox One: "It does not have to be always connected, but Xbox One does require a connection to the Internet."

Xbox One Release: Tons Of Questions, Very Few Answers [Published Techdirt - 9 hours ago]

...lawyers said yes, but the FBI concluded it didn't have to tell the press in the specific case it had inquired about, because agents had not "understood at the time the subpoenas were issued that the subpoenas called for reporters' records."

Think DOJ Spying On Reporters Was 'Unprecedented'? Think Again [Published Techdirt - 10 hours ago]

...from the feeds of millions of teenagers, each one bragging about trademarking their copyright on some catchy phrase they misheard on Twitter ( "Be careful talking when you have a mouthful of glass" ) and regurgitating its findings in 40-pt font across the top of Raw Story's piped-in news selection

...Ask them if they are under any illusions that the two brews are distinctly different because of the logo. When they say, "Of course not, you idiot, and why did you kidnap me from the Stop & Go?!?" , ask them to slam one of each beers. Rinse, repeat...

Magic Hat Brewery Sues West Sixth Brewing, Claiming 6 Looks Too Much Like 9 [Published Techdirt - May 23 2013]

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Chicago School System On FOIA Requests: Stonewa... [Published Techdirt - May 23 2013]
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Man Butt Dials 911 While Discussing Murder Plot [Published Techdirt - May 23 2013]
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Cool New Platform For Supporting Artists: Patre... [Published Techdirt - May 23 2013]
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In Defense Of Digital Freedom: It's Time To Get... [Published Techdirt - 8 hours ago] Marietje Schaake, a member of the European Parliament often credited as one of the most tech savvy (and, yes, a regular Techdirt reader ) has penned an excellent article, In defense of digital freedom . It's well worth a read, even if it covers many ...
Xbox One Release: Tons Of Questions, Very Few A... [Published Techdirt - 9 hours ago] Unless, like me, you are looking at the release dates for the next generation of gaming consoles the way a starving hyena watches an approaching gazelle that's been eating nothing but butter for weeks, perhaps you're not up on all the information coming ...
Think DOJ Spying On Reporters Was 'Unprecedente... [Published Techdirt - 10 hours ago] We've already written about how the DOJ has a bit of history of spying on journalists' phone records without following the rules, and that was only scratching the surface. On Monday we showed that to be the case with the revelation about the questionable ...
DailyDirt: DIY Soda (Pop Or Whatever You Call C... [Published Techdirt - 11 hours ago] from the urls-we-dig-up deptMaking your own carbonated soft drinks has a few benefits -- from knowing where all the ingredients came from (eg. no brominated vegetable oil) to getting the satisfaction of creating your own custom flavoring. It's not quite ...
Petition Asks Obama To Support Treaty For The B... [Published Techdirt - 12 hours ago] During the course of President Obama's administration, he has gone back and forth over support for the WIPO treaty for the blind, which would make it easier for vision impaired people to get copies of books that they can read (allowing legally made copies ...